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Tuesday Aug 11, 2009

Yesterday was my the last day at SUN office in Prague. I sent several last emails and had several last discussions with my friends in the office. I don't intending to write long story about. Anyway it's funny when I realized I spent in SUN around 8th years. When I look back it was great experience in all ways ... During the 1st GeeCON edition we have discovered simplicity and true of small magic plastic box. All future is inside !

Wednesday Mar 18, 2009

I did
promise in the last post about SCA meeting in Prague to blog more about. Here it is. I know
that there was little delay but I guess all participant of GeeCON conference
will be very happy for this delay. I did lot of work with our GeeCON team in
this case.

Second day
was more technical. I’m very glad for because several of SCA had very strange questions.
Theirs questions only uncover theirs unfamiliarity with several quite basic SUN
product.s Technical day was arranged to do very big change and step forward. By
a change I mean get motivation to learn much more and increase curiosity. I’m sure we ware very successful!

SCA little
warmed up by very good and nice presentation about OpenSolaris driven by David
Botterill and much more by Guys from SST Team (Solaris System Testing Team ).
This amazing start was followed by NetBeans Roadmap done by John
Jullion-Ceccarelli. I’m sure after this started every of SCAs felt satisfied. As little regeneration
we got lunch. Everybody had new power then we started with Presentation around
NetBeans. It was more introduction and it should show to SCAs how to present. I
think only little doubt about needs could be when most of SCA are experienced
in NetBeans and Java too. But it definitely increased they awareness about
presenting skills. Nevermind then
we had very cool Cold Lab Tour followed by visit of Usability Lab (See any of
my previous posts)

Glassfish –
very nice and good presentation. Everybody was excited from. And as it seems
Glassfish team is going to have an presentation at Fontys University of Applied
Science. I’ll blog about later on.

Monday Mar 02, 2009

I did the last post about
GeeCON progress week ago. During this time lot of things happen. I am going to
start with announcement about our sponsors. SUN is now Platinum sponsor of this
conference which is very good sign for whole region. Special thanks belong to
all people involved in. The list is very long (Reggie, Aaron, Raoul, Jim, Matt, Radek, Adrian, Me ,
Pavel, Agatha ... and many others ). We are still under the negotiation
with others companies. It means that the list is still now full. Our current sponsors
are SUN, Spring Source, Adobe, Google, JetBrains

I'm proud
also to pre-announce training sessions during whole conference and the training
day one day before the conference. But whole GeeCON team is still working to
finalize all these possibilities. There is plan to have discounts for
certification exams and much more others. So let it be as surprise for the next
post I guess training day could be very nice opportunity for companies to increase
employee knowledge.

There are lots of reasons
to be registered before the conference. Here is one of them everybody could
win IntelliJ IDEA licence. Second is that we can do better plan for all
attendances. The third is that it is cheaper

Now we have also our GeeCON
groups on facebook and LinkedIn. You could also register there to get more information
about Krakow and planed flow of conference. See you there!

After
sometime little mindless and sometimes useful marketing day we prepared for
all SCAs very cool dinner in nice restaurant in the centre of Prague. We have reserved one whole room for
us. It was very good sign for good dinner with lot of fun and great mood. Everybody want to test our national treasure, Beer.

Comments: Img1 - Sasha is very hungry after marketing day Img2 - Start of Becherovka session Img3 - Our great and awarded Serena

I think they got a big chance to do it real. Another surprise for all was that we have also another national drink called Becherovka Everybody became to be a fan in few minutes. I guess after second one. Becherovka is our national elixir of well-being

Thursday Feb 26, 2009

I wanted to post this part yesterday but I was too busy by
other tasks. I caught only images preparation. It took little time to
convert them all to JPG format. So back to the day 1 of SCA Prague
meeting.

Only comments to images: Img1. Our meeting room Img2. I was awarded by Poland Ambassadors by Vodka be cause this support and issues we solved in Poland. Thank you again ! My pleasure to support you guys. Img3. David Botterill our every great tech lead

During this day most of all ambassadors were in Prague since day
before but during early morning we were completed. Last group from
Poland came too. We named unofficial photographer of this meeting.
Named was Andrzej Grzesik. In this way I want to thanks him for all
images he did .

Comments: Img1 Leen before hers presentation about SAI. Cecilia sat close to Leen. Img2 My desk changed after Guy awarded me. Cheer and vodka for being stronger in managing meeting background. Img3 Sharing experiences between Hungary, Poland and Czech Zoltan and Andrzej are in direction finder

Day 1 was focused on marketing questions. Ambassadors recognized
them self too. Everybody was little different then in image placed in the
OSUM portal Sometimes it was funny.

Comments: Img1:our room Img2: Claudio Serena and Daniel Img3: we had discussion on every coffee breaks

The first presentation had our site director Pavel Suk. He started
our meeting in really great way ! Pavel introduced our Czech Site and
also cooperating with Czech universities. This news were really inspiration for most of ambassadors. I came 10 minutes late because
metro was broken. What say more I really wanted to be there in
time but we have Murphy laws.

After Pavel's introduction Alexander and Cecilia (SCA Program
managers). Had presentation about communities and program goals. They
did also long recap. They describe also importance of OSUM.
After theirs presentation we did also brainstorming about OSUM
improvements. This was really interesting but I could mention it
later I should have presentation together with Cecilia but in the
end I just only introduced the result of our brainstorming session. I
hope it satisfied all of SCAs because they asked me many times when I'm
going to have presentation. In the future I'm looking forward to have
longer presentation for them. But during our meeting I had a full
plate with duties connected with managing other things connected with
right flow.

Comments: Img1: Davind is looking for inspiration Img2: Our special guest Roman Strobl but without any presentation because he was too busy Img3: Our Brainstorming session about OSUM led by Cecilia

Sun Learning Services Department was introduced by Pavel Veljacik.
He explained to ambassadors what SCA Program really offers to them.
Ambassadors have unique chance to increase their knowledge by
certification using and what does it really means to be certificated.
Other point was differences between certification levels. Leen
Marcelis did very nice overview about our SAI ( Sun Academic
Initiative ). SAI is offered to every ambassador for free. Every
ambassador could also provide access to his campus. SAI can be
used by every university or student for free. SAI should be offered
hand by hand with OSUM.

We had also session of sharing best
practices between all SCA some of them had presentation. It
uncovered that across European countries are big differences. What is
in one country applicable in other country is not working. But
definitely this experience was very useful for all who were not
familiar with. About that I had very long discussions with most of
ambassadors. I tried to ask them for all theirs needs and
difficulties. We had also in most of cases discussion how to improve
it and what kind of help they need. Everybody was more open to me when they
speak to me personally. I was glad to have such discussion. I really
appreciate all open conversation I had about. It could help me to
better understand.

On the end of this more marketing day (
Some of SCAs named it as brainwashing day) we had very nice dinner in
Novomestsky Pivovar. But about this part of day in next post

Thursday Jan 29, 2009

This post is very simple and short. I'm sending you google map. From Eurohotel Praha you can walk to our Sun Office. I think it's the fastest way. I take around 20 minutes. As againg for the first time, please remember name of all streets . It's very useful.

Wednesday Jan 28, 2009

Hi all SCAs who are involved in. As you all of you know we are going to have Orientation Meetings in Frankfurt and Prague. So I'm covering meeting in Prague. My next blog posts are going to be about in most of time.

This planed meeting is also one of things why I didn't blog after new year. There ware lot of meetings connected with and take a care about. I'm very glad all SCAs will get opportunity to visit our development center in Prague. Prague is quite unique site from general SUN organization.

Instead of the fact I have posted lot of things via email. I want to mention something on my blog. I think one will be about how to get to the Eurohotel Praha or SUN office from the Ruzyne air port Because I guess it's very important.

this will be another brief post to my blog. As I'm coordinator also for Iberia/Spain I'm trying to support and advise all our SCAs there. ( Small note I have about name of the country. I still don't know what is better. In Europe we are using only Spain.) We have SCA Raul Tinedo on University Universitat Rovira i Virgil. I have to note that he is doing pretty well in his effort.

His the first presenation was around NetBeans 6.5 new features and usage. He meation also SAI or OSUM. Raul is on the right way with this kind of presenation. Personal experiencse is very important. I'm looking forward for his next presentation. I'm crossing fingers for you Raul

Wednesday Jan 07, 2009

I have great news for all involved by GeeCON conference. After yestardays meetings showed up very serious change to have Sun Certification Exams here with special discounts for attendants. Here is also other change to have Sun Training seminars before this conference.As I wrote in my several previous post this conference has very big potential to be great and at the start was only dream to have any Eastern Europenan Conference.

But this is only particulary information ... we still have to finish lot of work around.

Wednesday Nov 05, 2008

I think lot of us heard about Sun Laboratories. I think projects realized inside Labs are amazing. SunSPOT is also coming from SunLabs. For those how doesn't know about what I'm writing . Just have a look at Sun Research . Also I think it could be very good topic for Sun Campus Ambassadors pressentation. What do you think ?

I had aslo very motivational meeting with Katherine Hartsell (External Research Office). I'm glad for that!